Материалы к типологии ассоциативной множественности: кубанский диалект кабардино-черкесского языка

Вестник РГГУ. Серия «Литературоведение. Языкознание. Культурология». 2020. № 7. С. 84–106.

Bagirokova I., Баранова А. И., Lander Y.

Kabardian (Northwest Caucasian) displays two associative plural constructions. The first pattern exploits the suffix which is also used for the expression of additive plural: it is added to proper names and normally provides a reference to the family of the focal referent. Within the second pattern, a specific associative plural marker follows a syntactically autonomous nominal. The latter pattern possesses several specific properties: the associative plural marker governs the case of the focal nominal, which can be represented even by inanimate, non-specific and coordinate NPs. To describe the Kabardian associative plural system, we would suggest using not only a simplified version of Animacy Hierarchy (as is often done in typological literature) but involving several other hierarchies including those of definiteness/referentiality, number individuation, and morphosyntactic autonomy.

Keywords: категория числа, кавказские языки, Northwest Caucasian languages, абхазо-адыгские языки, Kabardian, кабардино-черкесский язык, languages of the Caucasus, языки Кавказа, Caucasian languages, западнокавказские языки, West Caucasian, number category